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Posted 8/8/2011 10:12 PM (GMT 0)
Mel, you constantly try to put words into my mouth. Where is your proof, that if you have aggressive cancer and diet does lengthen the PSADT? There is no concrete, direct, dyed-in-the-wool proof, that's the whole point. If you read my entire post above, already told you my general dietary outlook. Why do you think I think its "such a torture"? I am not depriving myself of anything I choose to eat.

Going to end this conversation. In the end, all of us will eat what we want to eat, and if we don't, then it's that person's choice, and if someone honestly thinks its helping their cancer, then more power to them. Guess you have to believe in something, might as well be in the miracle of foods helping with cancer.

Enjoy your salmon.

I haven't even eaten at all today, been in constant pain since my eyes opened this morning, food is the last thing on my mind
Posted 8/8/2011 10:32 PM (GMT 0)
Puttenesca is a tomato based sauce with olives, capers, garlic, a little red pepper and some people put in a few anchovies. It sounds nasty, but is really tasty, and good for you. Lots of omega 3's and lycopene.
Posted 8/8/2011 10:38 PM (GMT 0)
BB

That sounds delicious !

Goodlife
Posted 8/8/2011 11:43 PM (GMT 0)
Now, Puttenesca is a sauce I like - made with proper capers. Fits the Medit. diet to a T. I'll be envious tonight.

Salmon is good, too. With olive oil and capers, makes a great pasta sauce.

As to all those green vegetables, on the same list with eggplant, soy, and liver for me. If it is green, and on my table, it had best be basil, olives, lentils, capers/caper berries, lettuce, green beans, or okra. The rest is rabbit food, at least in my opinion smilewinkgrin

Posted 8/9/2011 12:47 AM (GMT 0)
Ever hear of a rabbit with prostate cancer ?
Posted 8/9/2011 12:50 AM (GMT 0)
Never did an autopsy on the way to the skillet - sorry.
Posted 8/9/2011 1:09 AM (GMT 0)
Actually, rabbits can get prostate cancer, so much for the vegetarian life:

http://www.rabbitnetwork.org/articles/spay.shtml
Posted 8/9/2011 1:15 AM (GMT 0)
Dave, I will not/cannot wait for concrete, direct, dyed in the wool proof. If there is a reasonable possibilty that diet will slow down tumor growth then I am going for it. And I do believe that studies have shown that the possibility exists. QOL is an issue and a vegan diet would make me miserable. However, for me a medit. diet is very doable. I love fish, pasta, fruit and veggies. I can do olive oil instead of butter (most of the time). Giving up red meat to me is a mere annoyance, but I can see how it w.ould be a real problem for some. BB
Posted 8/9/2011 1:19 AM (GMT 0)
Roast rabbit, polenta, fresh green beans, a little Barolo wine -
Posted 8/9/2011 1:23 AM (GMT 0)
Mel, here is a recipe for the use of eggplant. Since it is a Greek dish, it may fit right into your Med. diet.

I remember having a recipe like this one years ago and looked it up for you and the others that like eggplant. To me it is very much like lasagna, but it uses sliced eggplant in place of the pasta in the layers. Haven't had it for years but I remember it being pretty good.

This is just one of the recipes that I found. Granted there are a few ingredients that may not make it the leanest dish in the world, but it's Greek and uses eggplant.

www.ifood.tv/recipe/athenian-moussaka

Sonny
Posted 8/9/2011 1:28 AM (GMT 0)
bb, i have always advocated heart healthy and/or mederteranian diet, no an issue with me, that's what my own experts tell me and i have always reported that.
Posted 8/9/2011 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
Does anyone have any good websites for Mediterranean recipes ?

BB Fan the Puttenesca sounds delicious.
I never developed a taste for anchovies, think I ate once when I was very young - did not like and have never tried anchovies again. Grins - maybe time to try something "new"
Posted 8/9/2011 2:26 AM (GMT 0)
rad, this link is a start:

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/collections/healthy_mediterranean_recipes
Posted 8/9/2011 2:46 AM (GMT 0)
Raddad,

"I never developed a taste for anchovies, think I ate once when I was very young - did not like and have never tried anchovies again. Grins - maybe time to try something "new"'

Don't be thinking the anchovy fillets straight out of the can. Anchovy is is often mixed into a sauce to give it a more rounded flavor and doesn't leap out as ANCHOVY. Anchovy paste is a staple at our house. The best canned anchovy is Italian salt packed, kind of pricey though......

Don't forget wine is part of a Mediterranean diet!
Posted 8/9/2011 2:52 AM (GMT 0)
If you decide pizza is Mediterranean, try wrapping a piece of pizza around an anchovie. Hmmmm, hmmmmm.

Better yet, put it between 2 pieces of tofu or eggplant ........ Just kidding .
Posted 8/9/2011 11:17 AM (GMT 0)
Here’s a recipe that’ll make your life more enjoyable…. It’s called BANNED MEMBER STEW.

You take the same members that are always causing trouble.
You put em all in a pot.
You boil their a.s.s. till you get down to the bone.

You toss all of the bone into a waste bin.
You take what’s left over and pour into a shot glass.

Bottoms Up  – Yum Yum

If we can’t get any volunteers to jump in the pot – we’re going to pick a few.

Posted 8/9/2011 5:40 PM (GMT 0)

JerseyGuy said...
Try cutting the skin from the eggplant, then bread it, (use whatever coating you want), then fry it in either cannola oil or olive oil until they are crispy. Then serve then in a tomato based sauce, what ever you like and it is tasty. I personally do not like baked eggplant, it is too soft in texture and tasteless. Just an fyi, being Italian, we pretty much use tomato sauce for everything. You can brown ground turkey and mix it in the sauce and put it on the fried eggplant. Try it, even though it is fried, it is low in fat.

Joe

The Mediterranean diet is considered of great value in the prevention of cardiovascular or cancerous diseases and particularly of prostate cancer  [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14661397]. 

JerseyGuy, thanks for this posting (above)...I'm gonna try this!  Always looking for something thats good, and good for me!  Other Mediterranean diet ideas that guys here have tried are welcomed...

Posted 8/9/2011 5:58 PM (GMT 0)
Steve that sounds very similar to the crawfish boil that we had in April at the GFMPH.

Cajun Jeff
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